Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-11-17
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
GOHE TO HER REST.
A Brief Sketch If tho Life and Character
of the Late Jane Nelson McAdan.

A Brief sketch of tho Life and Character
of the Late Jane Nelson McAdam.
During the summer, while the friends
were scattered to mountain-side and
seashore, one of the remarkable women
of New York passed away. This was
Mrs. Jane Nelson McAdam, the mother
of our longtime co-worker, Miss jean
ME McAdam. AS treasurer of the
New York City League. Miss McAdam
has rendered faithful service to our
cause for fifteen years. A lady of
great personal beauty and grace of
manner-how many times we have
looked at her with pride, as she stood
reading her reports, her whole appear
ance in dignity and refinement falsify-
ing the absurd prejudices against the
women who advocate equal rights.
During these years the summer home
of Miss McAdam was at Yonkers,
where dwelt her mother, passing gent
" down the vale of years till she had
almost entered her ninety-seventh win
ter. Born at Belfast, Ireland, Septem-
Der 9. 1891, Jane Nelson came into be-
ing in the midst of the struggle for
Irish independence, which eliminated
in the outbreak of 1898. Her father,
Samuel Nelson, was distinguished
member of the Order of United
Irishmen, the associate of Wolf
Tone and Robert Emmett. For
his part in ''inciting rebellion"
he was cast into Newgate prison
with Emmett, Gordon, Russell, and
others, and was only liberated on
pledge to expatriate himself. He came
to this country to make a home for his
wife and children, but ere he could do
so he died, broken down by the hard
ships of his Imprisonment. His family
remained in Ireland, where Jane grew
to womanhood and married George
McAdam, at II later period coming to
this country with her family, where,
by her own talents and efforts, she OBJ
tanned an honorable independence.
For many years she and her daughters
kept a private school, at which were
educated the children of most of the
best people of the vicinity.
Born and reared amid the struggles
for independence in Ireland, Mrs. Nc
Adam loved liberty with intense de-
votion. She took the deepest interest
in the anti-slavery struggle. Al
though the woman suffrage agitation
came after she had entered old age,
she followed every movement with
the keenest enthusiasm. She was
gifted with distinguished beauty, re-
tanning to her death wonderful deli
cacy of complexion. She was ripe
scholar, and possessed a tenacious
memory, She astonished young
student only few years ago by re-
citing to him ninety lines of Vir-
gil. She had charming geniality Of
manner, and the readiness of wit and
quickness of repartee supposed to be-
long to her race. On the day before
her death she recited the whole of the
psalm, THE Lord is my shepherd,
shall not want" first in the language
of the Bible, and then in the metrical
version. Her last words before she
sank into the sleep in which she peace
fully passed away were 'rest, rest, y
and few moments later, "to-mor
roww
The closing of life so full IF useful
ness and yet so ripe brings not the re
greet that comes when one is cut off il
the prime. The friends who stood
under the trees, and among the flowers
of the home where she had dwelt fo1
so many years, looking out over thu
bright waters of the Hudson, felt tina
the spirit, released from the burden o
years, was gazing on fairer vision
than these, and that the words flare
well" and "all hair blended between
the nearer and the further Shore
Lille Deuereur Blake, IN Woman's jour